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Attorney Charles Lyons holds a document from anational black law officers group (NOBLE) which saysthat five Waynesboro officers who endorsed a localcandidate for sheriff on behalf of the organizationwere not members of the organization and that theorganization does not make endorsements.

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On Thursday, July 19, 2012 theAugusta Branch NAACP will host aSheriffs Candidates Political Forumand Voter Education Workshop atNew Zion Hill Missionary BaptistChurch at 3237 Deans BridgeRoad.

The presenter will be Mrs. LynnBailey, Executive Director ofthe Richmond County Board ofElections. She will help educate thepublic on the new district numeri-cal lines that have been drawn byFederal Judge Randal Hall whichchanges to some degree a few vot-ers and precincts around. Also, she

will explain the notification cardsthat were sent out and let the publicknow what the laws are regardingthe redistricting ruling. She willbring handouts for the audience toread regarding these changes.

The program will be moderated byDr. Mallory K. Millender

The public will provided anopportunity to ask questions regard-ing changes and anything they needto know the upcoming July 31Primary Election and the November6 General Election. This will includethe Board of Education and CountyCommission non-partisan races.

The Directors Selection Committeeof the East Central Georgia RegionalLibrary System will interview fourcandidates for the position ofDirector. The candidates are:

Ms. Darlene Price: Ms. Price is cur-rently an Administrative Librarian atRamstein Air Base, Germany.

Dr. Donna L. Riegel: Dr. Riegelis currently an AdministrativeSupervisor at the Jacksonville Library,

Jacksonville, Florida.Ms. Mashell Fashion: Ms. Fashion is

currently the Interim Director of theEast Central Georgia Regional LibrarySystem.

Ms. Barbara A. Morgan: Ms. Morganis currently the Director of theLake Charles Library, Lake Charles,Louisiana.

Interviews will be conducted July23rd & 24th, 2012.

Sheriffs Forum and Voter Education

Workshop set for New Zion Hill Baptist

Four under consideration for library director

In Person Advance Voting for theGeneral Primary and nonparitsan elec-tions has begun and will continuethrough Friday, July 27, 2012 in theBoard of Elections Office located at530 Greene Street, Room 104, Augusta,Georgia.

All voters who vote early must pro-vide one of the six acceptable forms ofphoto identification and do not have toprovide a reason for voting early.

The hours for early voting will befrom 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM daily,except that during the week immedi-ately preceding the date of the Primary,

voting hours will be extended until 6:00 PM daily.

Advance Voting Week will begin onMonday, July 23, 2012 through Friday,

July 27, 2010. The locations that will beopen for voting during Advance Voting

Week include the Board of ElectionsMain Office located at 530 GreeneStreet, Room 104, the Henry BrighamRecreation Center located at 2463Golden Camp Road, and the WarrenRoad Recreation Center located at 300

Warren Road. The hours for voting willbe from 8:30 AM until 6:00 PM daily at

all three locations.Voting by mail is available now and

will continue through Friday, July 27,2012. All persons desiring to vote bymail must submit a written request tothe Board of Elections Office eitherby mail or fax. The request must con-tain the voters name and address asregistered, date of birth, the date ofthe election for which the ballot isbeing requested (July 31, 2012 GeneralPrimary), the voters party preference,if desired (democratic or republican)

Advance primary voting has begunand must be signed. Voters casting aballot by mail do not have to provideidentification nor a reason for voting bymail. The mailing address for submit-ting a request to vote by mail is: Boardof Elections, 530 Greene Street, Room104, Augusta, Georgia, 30901, the fax

number is (706) 821-2814 and theemail address is [email protected] .

Additional information is availableat the Board of Elections Website at

www.augustaga.gov or by calling (706)821-2340.

By Frederick Benjamin Sr.

I always thought that the cops shouldbe the slickest people in the room. Afterall, they see more in a week than most ofus civilians would see in a year.

I still think that, but I have to mod-ify that statement due to the recentevents orchestrated by members ofthe Waynesboro Police Department.

Waynesboro cops are not slick. noteven close.

This story is barely a week old and ithas already been swept under the rugby the daily paper. I guess since it d idntinvolve Paine College, it couldnt make adecent investigative piece.

So what happened was this fivepolice officers from the small town of

Waynesboro (population 5,000) decid-ed to endorse Scott Peebles, one of sixcandidates who are running for sheriffin Augusta. Why?

No one really has said. They cant votefor him. But what does it matter. Theycan support whomever they please. So,lets just suppose that they wanted tosupport their friend, Scott Peebles.

But the way they went about it, aHollywood scriptwriter could not haveimagined. The blunder was elegantin its simplicity, in its spiraling web oframifications. This caper had everything

politicians, shady cops, race hustlers,liberal outrage, conservative hypocrisy,national appeal, cease and desist orders.It was irresistible to conspiracy theorists.Can you say cover-up?

Evidence was piling up as fast this

quintet of lawmen could say, We likeScott.

Can you say phony letterheads, photo-shopped logos, bogus documents.

What we have here isThe Endorsementfrom Hell.

But before we go too far in this nar-rative, let us stop saying that this is notabout race. It is about black people who

vote and white people who vote. Nowto most black people who vote and tomost white people who vote, it certainlyseems to be about race. This tendencyis reinforced by the labels of the twomajor parties. Whites vote overwhelm-ingly for Republicans and Blacks voteoverwhelmingly for Democrats.

That is how it works here in Augusta.And it probably doesnt work too differ-ent in Waynesboro.

If its about politics, its about race.So, if there is a racial angle to the

Great Endorsement Scandal, what partdoes it play? Just this.

These law enforcement officialsfrom The Birddog capital of the Worldbrought to this campaign just what wasneeded some comic relief.

No, its not about Scott Peeblesand it certainly is not about RichardRoundtree; both are the bit players inthis drama.

It is about black police officers whoattempted to pass themselves off as rep-resentatives of a national organization.These officers compounded their errorby fabricating documents and a concoct-ing a poor-us narrative to smooth overtheir colossal blunder.

Right on cue, the conservative spinmachine attempted to portray theevent as black officers who were beingdragged over the coal for daring toendorse a white candidate.

Only a fool would fall for that. Thatseasily proven to be a crock. Blacks havealways endorsed white candidates in

Augusta. Sometimes those endorse-ments are genuine and sometimes theyare self serving, but its never a big deal.Its part of the game

White candidates, for their part, valuethe endorsement of prominent blacksbecause it enhances their chances atthe polls, regardless of the race of theiropponents.

Blacks, as well, value the endorse-ment from prominent whites. Its nobig deal.

However, I cant think of anothercase in local political history where theendorsers pretended to be somethingother than what they were.

Thats what makes this so beauti-ful. No one cares who five black guysin Waynesboro think. But, if thosefive black guys are representative ofa national organization a nationalblack organization, everyone can seehow a white candidate in Augusta would

value such an endorsement in a tightpolitical race.

An endorsement from a blackpolicemans association would boostthe street cred of any white candi-date. Likewise if John Ivey or RichardRoundtree were to receive a similarendorsement from a white organization,

you can bet that they would see that as major asset because of the race issue.

So, of course, its about race. Yourean idiot if you think you can talk politicsin Augusta and not talk race. But once

you agree that race plays a part, you canmove on to a more substantive discussion.

Thats where this whole discussiongot side tracked. Everyone put on theirracial colors and cant see the massivefraud that was about to take place here.The fraud committed by t he Waynesborofive had nothing to do about race, buttheir endorsement being politica

was all about race.Thats not necessarily a bad thing. It

just a fact.But, everyone wants to know, how

could this happen. How could theseWaynesboro cops do something thatappears to be so dumb? Heres how Iimagine it could have happened.

In this case, you can just imagine thediscussion among Alphonso Williamsthe leader of the bogus endorsemengroup. It might have gone somethinglike this

Officer 1: That Scott Peebles is a greacop and hed make an even better sher-iff. Why dont we endorse him? After all

were great cops too. We do communitypolicing and the whole bit.

Officer 2: Yeah, but we dont live inAugusta and no one would care abouour endorsement. We have to thinkof something that would carry more

This photo appeared in the July 5, 2012 edition of UrbanProWeekly. It purportedly shows members of the National Organization of Black LawEnforcement Executives (N.O.B.L.E.) from the Georgia Chapter, Region 7, endorsing sheriffs candidate Scott Peebles. It was later discovered that thegroup which included Waynesboro Chief of Police Alphonzo Williams, Deputy Chief Roosevelt Lodge, Captain Anthony Dixon, David Hannah and WesleyLewis were not really members of that national organization and there was no such thing as Region 7.


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Augusta is now off icially knownas Sammy Sias Lane. Membersof the Sandridge Community

Association, Inc. and the AugustaRichmond County RecreationDepartment honored the longtimeresident and community advocatein a special Street Dedication lun-cheon on Friday, July 6, 2012.

Mr. Sias and friends and familywere on hand for the occasionand Richmond County Sheriffscandidate Scott Peebles was onhand as well.

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3: Yeah, but wont we get inwith the brothers and sisters in1: Nah, they wont even care.way, Scotts got all the money.na win anyway. Can you imag-good it can be for us if he gets

4: Yeah, Ill bet we can get toy cops!2: Hey, I know. Our endorse-l carry more weight if we tella part of N.O.B.L.E.

5: Noble, whats that?2: You know that national

ion of black cops. I think thatsthe way to go. That way, it

t be us. It will be the entire

organization.Officer 5: Yeah, but were not even

members.Officer 1: So what, we can say were

members.Officer 5: Do you think that will

work?Officer 1: Sure, we can all join and

then say, as members of N.O.B.L.E, weendorse Scott Peebles

Officer 4: Whee! Great, lets do it.Officer 5: But what about the other

candidates, what will they think?Officer 1: Who cares, they dont have

the money and theyre not going to winanyway.

So they pile into their vehicles, phonyendorsement on phony letterhead intow and head for Augusta.

torney blasts officers endorsement as a liederick Benjamin Sr.ProWeekly Staff Writer

TAday, July 6, it was 96 degreesade.Lyons was hot for another rea-local attorney who representscandidate Richard Roundtreeiple digit temperatures dur-ess conference in which helphonso Williams, the police

Waynesboro and the purportednd of the botched national

ment that had Augusta buzzingdays and launched a statewidethe National Organization of

w Enforcement Executives.

Reading from a prepared textentitled The Fabrication of Alphonso

Williams, Lyons heaped scorn on TheWayesboro chief of police for his part inthe endorsement of sheriffs candidateScott Peebles on behalf of the black lawenforcement officers organization.

It was Lyons and others in theRoundtree camp that unearthed theembarrassing details of the endorse-ment and produced a document fromN.O.B.L.E. executives demanding thatthe group retract the endorsement andcease and desist misrepresenting theorganization.

Lyons didnt mince words in express-ing his displeasure with the endorse-ment.

Mr. Williams and the Waynesboro 4came to our city and lied to the citizensof Augusta, Lyons concluded.

Through the efforts of several per-sons this endorsement was proven tobe a fraud. Since this time Mr. Williamshas decided to go to the airwaves andclaim victimhood, mistake and misin-formation, Lyons said.

Lyons and others in the Roundtreecamp, took the Burke County officersto task for (1) Not doing their home-

work and realizing that a 501c(3) orga-nization such as N.O.B.L.E. does notendorse candidates. (2) For claiming tobe members of the organization whenthey were not. (3) For claiming to beofficers in the organization and even

producing documents fraudulantlydisplaying the organizations logo

which was inartfully scanned fromthe organizations legitimate letterheadand (4) After the ruse was discoveredfor continuing the charade by claimingthat the whole affair was an honestmistake.

The Peebles camp issued a statementthanking the officers for their person-al support but distanced themselvesfrom the N.O.B.L.E. endorsement.

Lyons, however, criticized the Peeblescamp for their failure to remove theN.O.B.L.E. endorsement from their

website in a timely fashion.N.O.B.L.E. officials in Georgia said

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By Paul Krugman

Once upon a time a rich mannamed Romney ran for president. Hecould claim, with considerable jus-tice, that his wealth was well-earned,that he had in fact done a lot to cre-ate good jobs for American workers.Nonetheless, the public understand-ably wanted to know both how hehad grown so rich and what he haddone with his wealth; he obliged byreleasing extensive information abouthis financial history.

But that was 44 years ago. And thecontrast between George Romneyand his son Mitt a contrast bothin their business careers and in t heir

willingness to come clean about theirfinancial affairs dramatically illus-trates how America has changed.

Right now theres a lot of buzzabout an investigative report in themagazineVanity Fairhighlighting thegray areas in the younger Romneysfinances. More about that in a minute.First, however, lets talk about what itmeant to get rich in George Romneys

America, and how it compares withthe situation today.

What did George Romney do fora living? The answer was straight-forward: he ran an auto company,

American Motors. And he ran it verywell indeed: at a time when theBig Three were still fixated on bigcars and ignoring the rising tide ofimports, Romney shifted to a highlysuccessful focus on compacts thatrestored the companys fortunes, not

to mention that it saved the jobs ofmany American workers.

It also made him personally rich.We know this because during hisrun for president, he released notone, not two, but 12 years worth oftax returns, explaining that any one

year might just be a fluke. From thosereturns we learn that in his best year,1960, he made more than $660,000

the equivalent, adjusted for infla-

tion, of around $5 million today.Those returns also reveal that he

paid a lot of taxes 36 percent ofhis income in 1960, 37 percent overthe whole period. This was in partbecause, as one report at the time putit, he seldom took advantage of loop-holes to escape his tax obligations.But it was also because taxes on therich were much higher in the 50sand 60s than they are now. In fact,once you include the indirect effectsof taxes on corporate profits, taxes onthe very rich were about twice currentlevels.

Now fast-forward to Romney theYounger, who made even more moneyduring his business career at BainCapital. Unlike his father, however,

Mr. Romney didnt get rich by produc-ing things people wanted to buy; hemade his fortune through financialengineering that seems in many casesto have left workers worse off, andin some cases driven companies intobankruptcy.

And theres another contrast: GeorgeRomney was open and forthcomingabout what he did with his wealth,but Mitt Romney has largely kept his

finances secret. He did, grudgingly,release one years tax return plus anestimate for the next year, showingthat he paid a startlingly low tax rate.But as the Vanity Fair report pointsout, were still very much in the darkabout his investments, some of whichseem very mysterious.

Put it this way: Has there everbefore been a major presidential can-didate who had a multimillion-dollarSwiss bank account, plus tens of mil-lions invested in the Cayman Islands,famed as a tax haven?

And then theres his IndividualRetirement Account. I.R.A.s are sup-posed to be a tax-advantaged vehiclefor middle-class savers, with annualcontributions limited to a few thou-

sand dollars a year. Yet somehow Mr.Romney ended up with an account

worth between $20 million and $101million.

There are legitimate ways thatcould have happened, just as thereare potentially legitimate reasonsfor parking large sums of money inoverseas tax havens. But we dontknow which if any of those legitimatereasons apply in Mr. Romneys case because he has refused to release anydetails about his finances. This refusalto come clean suggests that he and hisadvisers believe that voters would beless likely to support him if they knewthe truth about his investments.

And that is precisely why vot-ers have a right to know that truth.Elections are, after all, in part aboutthe perceived character of the candi-

dates and what a man does withhis money is surely a major clue to hischaracter.

One more thing: To the extent thatMr. Romney has a coherent policyagenda, it involves cutting tax rateson the very rich which are al ready,as I said, down by about half since hisfathers time. Surely a man advocatingsuch policies has a special obligationto level with voters about the extentto which he would personally benefitfrom the policies he advocates.

Yet obviously thats something Mr.Romney doesnt want to do. Andunless he does reveal the truth abouthis investments, we can only assumethat hes hiding something seriouslydamaging.

Mitts Gray AreasHas there ever before been a major

presidential candidate who had a multi-million-dollar Swiss bank account, plustens of millions invested in the Cayman

Islands, famed as a tax haven?

By Carlo Wolff

In case youve forgotten or are tooyoung to know, the 1960s were thetemplate for todays political divisive-ness. In Subversives, Seth Rosenfeldchronicles how the abyss formed.His book is crucial history. Its also

a warning.In this work about unrest at the

University of California Berkeley,Rosenfeld tells the stories of thefrail, impassioned student leaderMario Savio; the measured but lib-eral Berkeley president Clark Kerr;and Ronald Reagan, the B-actor who,

with the secret help of FBI Director J.Edgar Hoover, polished the conspira-torially based law-and-order messagehe formulated in the 40s as the rabid-ly anti-Communist head of the Screen

Actors Guild to become governor ofCalifornia in 1966.

Reagan is a hero to todays GOP,which regards him as sunny, evenmoderate, but the way he handledunrest at UC Berkeley was cunning,

vindictive, and excessive. Rosenfeldsinterviews with participants in stu-dent uprisings at Berkeley in the 60sand with Reagans associates depictthis avuncular icon as ready andall too eager to crush dissent in the

name of protecting American values.A former investigative reporter

for the San Francisco Chronicle,Rosenfeld spent decades accumu-lating this material, filing Freedomof Information Act requests thatprompted the FBI to spend more than$1 million beating back his demandsuntil it grudgingly released more than

Subversives250,000 pages of files. Rosenfeld hasan agenda in this book of patience andpassion: setting straight a previouslyhidden and consequential record.The way his stories converge evokesThey Marched Into Sunlight, DavidMaraniss similarly structured 2003book about a Vietnam War firefight.

Through FBI documents and inter-views with players including Reagan

right-hand man Edwin Meese III,Richard Masato Aoki (a FBI informer

who a lso may have been a studentradical), and protestors, Rosenfeldpaints a chilling picture. Law enforce-ment organizations in ReagansCalifornia joined in a systematicattempt to smear students and pro-

Subversives takes a deep and troubling look atReagans handling of the civil unrest in Berkeley in the 1960s.

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We want our Fan Hosts to have funwhile theyre working. They establishcamaraderie with each other and weempower them to make decisions (inthe stands) while working. We treatthem with respect and that works

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He added that becoming a FanHost has become a competitive jobposition in his region. Currently,

ampa Bay Rays stadium rated A+r providing fan-friendly atmosphere

the Rays have 65 Fan Hosts on staff.Theres lots of pride in being a FanHost, said Vaughn.

First of all, we want to treat peoplewith respect. We want repeat custom-ers and its just the right thing to do,said Vaughn.

Vaughn said Fan Hosts are trainedat whats called Rays University,

where training courses present vari-ous scenarios and drills to provideFan Hosts with options to profession-ally resolve problems and situationsthat may unfold especially whensome fans have consumed alcoholicbeverages and could be unr uly.

Vaughn said customer servicebecame a team focus when currentowner Stewart Sternberg, assumedteam ownership in October 2005.Since the start of the 2006 season,a fan-friendly environment has beenpurposely perpetuated at the stadium

which is nicknamed, The Trop, said

Vaughn. Although the field is locatedin St. Petersburg, the team is namedfor neighboring Tampa.

Vaughn added that although theteam does not keep official feedback-data to gauge fan feedback, Its notuncommon for us to receive positivefeedback, in the form of phone calls,letters or emails testament thatTampa Bay Rays fan-friendly-focus isa successful venture.

EDITORS NOTE: We would beremiss not to credit Tampa-St. Petepowers-that-be who chose to con-struct a dome over the 1990-builtfacility which maintains a 72-degreeenvironment, while withstanding allweather conditions, including tor-rential rains, hurricanes and 100-plus temperatures that permeatedthe East Coast and the Tampa Bay-St.Petersburg locale during the entireJuly 4 holiday period and be yond.

am members eagerly greet fans whoadium entrances.TB Rays girls

John Bailey, a longtime Fan Host, enjoys his work as a customer ser-vice rep for the Tampa Bay Rays.

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